So what happens when you die?

[SueEllen]

I meant when I dropped out of contact they wouldn't know why. How long do you wait before hiring someone else and terminating the contract?

Some of my contracts have 7 day periods in them for this reason.

However one of my contracts' is remote.

Though while I do email them randomly and use social networking it would take them 2 weeks to notice I wasn't around as some of my social network messages are scheduled in advance.

[scooterscot]

Last one out?

Turn off the lights.

So, recently I came across my post grad website (strathclyde uni) and saw Jo, I used to work with her, that was in 2002. A week after that I learnt she died of cancer when she was 24 via an old work colleague.

8 years later the facility never knew, so I called them. Awfully grim I was only looking up the old alumni I did not expect to find peers lying in the ground already.

[zeitghost]

Everything Is Meaningless
1 The words of the Teacher,[a] son of David, king in Jerusalem:
2 “Meaningless! Meaningless!”
says the Teacher.
“Utterly meaningless!
Everything is meaningless.”

3 What do people gain from all their labors
at which they toil under the sun?
4 Generations come and generations go,
but the earth remains forever.
5 The sun rises and the sun sets,
and hurries back to where it rises.
6 The wind blows to the south
and turns to the north;
round and round it goes,
ever returning on its course.
7 All streams flow into the sea,
yet the sea is never full.
To the place the streams come from,
there they return again.
8 All things are wearisome,
more than one can say.
The eye never has enough of seeing,
nor the ear its fill of hearing.
9 What has been will be again,
what has been done will be done again;
there is nothing new under the sun.
10 Is there anything of which one can say,
“Look! This is something new”?
It was here already, long ago;
it was here before our time.
11 No one remembers the former generations,
and even those yet to come
will not be remembered
by those who follow them.

Funny how the King James version is so much better:

The Holy Bible: King James Version. 2000.
Ecclesiastes
OR, THE PREACHER
1

All Is Vanity
1 The words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem.

2 Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity.

3 What profit hath a man of all his labor which he taketh under the sun?

4 One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever.

5 The sun also ariseth, and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to his place where he arose.

6 The wind goeth toward the south, and turneth about unto the north; it whirleth about continually, and the wind returneth again according to his circuits.

7 All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full: unto the place from whence the rivers come, thither they return again.

8 All things are full of labor; man cannot utter it: the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.

9 The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.

10 Is there any thing whereof it may be said, See, this is new? it hath been already of old time, which was before us.

11 There is no remembrance of former things; neither shall there be any remembrance of things that are to come with those that shall come after.

[Churchill]

Funny how the King James version is so much better:

Bollocks, too many "th" for my liking.

[EternalOptimist]

I would really hate it if someone tied a bunch of flowers to the railings or the lampost, near where I snuff it. I dont know why , its just annoys me. And those fckng happy birthday banners on roundabouts, dont get me started on them

[scooterscot]

Constructs of cohesion and coincidence destined to be forever governed by the laws of cause and effect. Gosh that's almost some like some philosophical BS sas would come out with.

Here's another question for you, what's make you think you're alive in the first place?

[Old Greg]

Bollocks, too many "th" for my liking.

Bollocks unto thee.

[EternalOptimist]

Constructs of cohesion and coincidence destined to be forever governed by the laws of cause and effect. Gosh that's almost some like some philosophical BS sas would come out with.

Here's another question for you, what's make you think you're alive in the first place?

thats an easy one.

if you are not sure, send me all your money

[TykeMerc]

Thatth a nathty lithp you've got there.

A product of your Giant Alien Lithardneth?

[NotAllThere]

I've got a thore tongue from too mutchth muff diving.

Thor - I am mighty Thor.
(ex) Maiden - Yeth, but it wath fun, wathn't it.

Bollocks unto thee.

Don't thee "thou" me. Thee "thou" thyself and see how thee likes it - as we used to say, oop north.

I read an SF short story once about a world with routine use of VR - a guy died, but before he died he uploaded portions of himself to various places. It was months before anyone realised he was actually dead - he kept showing up in cyberspace.